How do we help visitors to our meetings to experience a transformative faith? How do we make the Quaker way an accessible path for the thousands of seekers that walk through the doors of our meeting houses each year?

In March of this coming year, a group of forty or more Quakers involved in religious education and spiritual formation efforts will sit down together for a multi-day meeting. Our goal is to be led by Spirit to affirm new and existing principles and methods that can serve us in the development of a comprehensive spiritual formation program. Based in part on what we learn at the consultation, we will strive to build a program that will help serve the fullness of a person’s spiritual journey – be that person a child, an adult, a newcomer, or a seasoned Friend.Read more at our website about the proposed religious education and spiritual formation program currently in discernment. >>

The Friends Meeting House Fund Just Got Greener

The Friends Meeting House Fund launched the Green Meeting House Fund when Quakerbooks and the FGC Gathering wanted to provide the option of carbon offsets for the costs of travel and shipping. These offsets go toward grants to Quaker meetings to green their meeting houses with water- or energy-saving appliances and building materials, energy audits, special projects like green roofs or rain gardens, or other energy-saving improvements that serve the meeting.

Now, the Green Meeting House Fund is open for general donations! Several Quaker organizations, including Quaker Voluntary Service, Pendle Hill, Quaker Institute for the Future, Quaker Earthcare Witness, and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s EcoJustice Working Group, have expressed interest in going “zero emissions” through gifts to the Green Meeting House Fund. Is your meeting considering a greening project? Would you like to purchase carbon offsets by contributing to the grant fund? Apply for funds or donate at our website! >>